November 7, 10–11 AM EST
In the next installment of our semi-regular group calls about documenting social media datasets Alexandra Dolan-Mescal will be discussing her early stage work building Social Humans and the work she intends to do over the next 1–2 years, soliciting feedback, testers, and thought partners.
Social Humans is a label system created to address ethical issues in social media use by archives and academia. The legal constraints of social media platforms for data reuse have proven insufficient for expressing the intent and wishes of content creators or protecting vulnerable and marginalized communities in these spaces. These labels seek to address that gap.
SH Labels empower content creators to indicate if and how they want their data to be used, above and beyond the legal use described in policies of for profit social media companies.
SH-A Labels allow archivists and academics to share contextual information determined in data analysis that may be useful for researchers to consider before using social media data in their work.
These calls are semi-public: you are welcome to join us, but we aren’t putting the information for how to join out on the public web. Please email [email protected] for information on how to join. We hope you can make it!